If the king blame me for't, I'll lay ve all By the heels, and suddenly; and on your heads Clap round fines, for neglect: you are lazy knaves: And here ye lie baiting of bumbards, when SCENE IV. THE PALACE. Port. You i'the camlet, get up o'the rail; I'll pick you o'er the pales else. [exeunt. Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord Mayor, Garter, Cranmer, Duke of Norfolk with his marshall's staff, Duke of Suffolk, two Noblemen bearing great standing-bowls, for the christening gifts; then four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the Duchess of Norfolk, Godmother, bearing the Child, richly habited in a mantle, &c. Train borne by a Lady; then follows the Marchioness of Dorset, the other Godmother, and Ladies. The troop pass once about the stage, and Garter speaks. Gart. Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous life, long, and ever happy, to the high and mighty princess of England, Elizabeth! Flourish. Enter King and Train. Cran. [kneeling.] And to your royal grace, and the good queen, My noble partners, and myself, thus pray :- K. Hen. Thank you, good lord archbishop: What is her name? More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue, Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, In her days, every man shall eat in safety Who, from the sacred ashes of her honour terror, Shall see this, and bless heaven. K. Hen. Thou speakest wonders. Cran. She shall be, to the happiness of England, An aged princess; many days shall see her, And yet no day without a deed to crown it. 'Would I had known no more! but she must die, She must, the saints must have her; yet a virgin, A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. Thou hast made me now a man; never, before ABJECTS, the lowest of subjects. Aby, to pay dear for, to suffer. Bases, a kind of loose breeches. Per. Basta, 'tis enough. Ital. and Span. Abysm, abyss; Tempest, signifying there time long Bastard, a sweet Italian wine. since passed. Accite, to call or summons. Adam, the name of an outlaw, noted for his skill in archery. Much Ado. Adam Cupid, an allusion to the same person. R. & J. Affect the letter, to practise alliteration. Love's Lab. Affeered, a law-term for confirmed. Afied, betrothed. Affined, joined by affinity. Affray, to affright. Afront, sometimes, to face or confront. Afy, to betroth in marriage; also, to put trust in. Aglet-baby, a diminutive being, not exceeding in size the tag of a point or lace; from aiguillettes. Agnize, acknowledge, confess, avow. Aiery, a hawk's or eagle's nest. Rich. III. Bate, strife or contention. Mer. Wives. Batlet, the instrument with which linen is beaten. Bavin, brushwood, which, fired, burns fiercely, but is soon out. Bawcock, a fondling or coaxing term. Bay windows, bow windows. Beadsmen, chaplains, or persons maintained by charity to pray for their benefactor. Bear a brain, to have a perfect remembrance. Beck, a salutation made with the head; in the North, it means curtsying. Becomed, becoming. Rom. and Jul. Bchests, commands, Behowl, to howl at. Beldame, ancient mother. Hen. IV. 1st Part. Be-lee'd, becalmed. Belongings, endowments. Be-mete, bemeasure. Bemoiled, bedraggled, bemired. Alder-lie fest, dear above, or preferred to, all things; Benison, blessing. from leve or lefe, dear, and alder, of all. A'life, at life. Almain, a German. Amazonian chin, a chin without a beard. Ames-ace, the lowest chance of the dice. Amort, sunk, dispirited. Ancient, an ensign, or standard-bearer. Angle, a fishing-rod. Winter's Tale. Anthropophaginian, a man-eater. Antres, caves and dens. Appeach, to impeach. Apple-John, species of apple that will keep for two years; in French, deux-ans. Approof,approbation, or sometimes proof, confirmation Argal, a corruption of ergo, therefore. Arm-gaunt, make thin by use of armour. Argosies, ships used in the seas of Italy. Aroint, avaunt, or be gone. Ascapart, a giant. Aspersion, sprinkling. Temp. A scaunt, askew, aside, sideways. Besmirch, to foul or dirty. Bestraught, distracted. Beteem, to give or bestow, or to permit, deign, or suffer. Ham. Bevy, a company, or number, originally applied to larks. Bewray, betray, discover. Bezonian, a term of reproach: from bisognoso, a needy person. Bias cheek, swelling out like the bias of a bowl. Bilbo, a Spanish blade, flexible and elastic; the best of which are made at Bilboa. Bilboes, a bar of iron, with fetters annexed to it, by which refractory or negligent sailors were anciently linked together. Bill, articles of accusation. Hen. VI. 1st Part Bill, the old weapon of English infantry, still used by the watchmen in some towns. Assay, to take the assay, applied to those who tasted Black-cornered night, night which is as obscure as a Blacks, mourning made of stuffs of different colours dyed black. Blaze, i. c. of youth, the spring of early life. All's Well. Blank, i. e. of the eye, the white, or the white mark at which arrows are discharged. Blank and level, mark and aim, terms of gunnery, Blent, blended, mixed together. Blind-worms, the cæcilia, or slow-worm. Blood-bolter'd, blood-sprinkled. Blurted, or blurt, an expression of contempt. Bobbed, fooled out of, cheated. Bodge, to botch, or to budge. Hen. VI. 3d Part. Bolds, emboldens. Boltered, bedaubed, begrimed. Bolting-hutch, a wooden receptacle into which the meat is bolted. Bombard, a barrel. Hen. IV. 1st Part.-Tem. Bores, stabs, or wounds. Borne in hand, deceived, imposed upon. Bosky, woody: bosky acres, are fields divided by hedge rows; from boscus and bosquet. Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse.-A bots light upon, an imprecation. Bottled spider, a large, bloated, glossy spider. Break up, to carve. Breakwith, to break the matter to. Breast, voice. Twel. Night. Carpet knight, a term of reproach, spoken of one knighted in time of peace. Twel. Night. Carriage, import. Ham. Case, skin. Twel. Night. Outside; to case, to run a fox down. All's Well. Breath, speech. K John Timon-Exercise, Troilus and Case of lives, a set of lives, or pair of any thing. Cress-A slight exercise of arms, ibid. Breathing-courtsy, verbal compliment. Breeched, foully sheathed, or mired. Mac. Breeching, liable to school discipline. Tam. Shrew. Bridal, a nuptial feast; a word yet used in the North. Caddises, worsted lace. Cade, a barrel. Cadent, falling. Cage, a prison. Hen. VI. 2d Part. All's Cased lion, a lion irritated by confinement. K. John Cassock, a loose outward coat. Cast, to empty. Mea. for Mea. To throw or reject. Cast the water, to find out disorders by inspecting the urine. Cataian, a liar, a romancer; the first adventurers who Catling, a small lute-string made of catgut. Cavalero-justice, a cant term. Cavalero, an airy, sprightly, irregular fellow. Caviare, too good for, or foreign to; the pickled roe of sturgeon. Cautel, subtlety, deceit, treachery. Cautelous, artful, or insidious. Cauterizing, burning, or blistering. Cearment, the wrapping of an embalmed body. Cease, decease, die. All's Well. Censer, an incense-dish. Censure, opinion. Hamlet. Certes, certainly, surely, verily Cess, measure, tax, or subsidy. Chaliced, i. e. flowers, with cups, from calix. Challenge, law-term, the right of refusing a juryman. Bn. Chamber, London was anciently called the king's chamber. Chamber, a picce of ordnance. Hen. IV. 2d Part. Chamberers, men of intrigue. Changeling, a child substituted for one stolen. Channel, kennel. Hen. VI. 3d Part. Chantry, little chapel in a cathedral. Character, hand-writing. Much Ado. Lear. Characts, characters. Charactery, the matter of which characters are made. Chare, household office. Charge-house, free-school Chariest, from chary, the most cautious. Chariness, caution. Charles-wain, vulgar name for the constellation called the Bear. Charneco, a kind of sweet wine. Chases, a term in tennis. Hen V. Chaudron, entrails. Cheater, for escheatour, an officer in the Exchequer, Check, command, control. Cym. Troil, and Cres. Cain-coloured, yellow; Cain was represented of that colour Cheveril, kid skin, soft leather. Camelot, a place where king Arthur is supposed to have Chopping, jabbering, talking glibly. Chuck, chicken, a term of endearment. Cinque-pace, a dance so called. Circumstance, circumlocution, evasion. Oth Canvas-climber, one who climbs the mast to furl the canvas, Cital, recital, accusation. a ship-boy. Ciack-dish, a beggar's dish. Camour, a term in bell-ringing; making the bells cease, | Crack, a child. Hen. IV. 2d Part. Cor. Clap in, fall to. Mea. for Mea. Clapped i'the clout, hit the white mark, Claw, to flatter. Clean kam, awry. Clearest, purest. Lear. Clepe, to call Clerkly, like a scholar. Cling, to dry or shrink up. Mac. Clinquant, glittering, shining. Crack of doom, dissolution of nature. Mac. Cranking, crankling, applied to the rush of a river. Cranks, windings. Crare, a small trading vessel. Crash, to be merry over. Craven, a degenerate, dispirited cock; cowardly, to make cowardly. Credent, probable, credulous. Cressets, a light set upon a beacon, from croissette, French Crisp, curling, winding; or for crypt, vaulted. Tim. Temp. Ant. and Cleo. &c. Crone, old worn-out woman. Clipt, twined around, embraced. Coasting, conciliating, inviting. Troil, and Cres. Cockshul-time, twilight. Cockle, a weed which grows up with corn. Cockled, like the fish called a cockle. Cockle-hat, cockle-shell-hat, such as pilgrims wore. Cross-gartered, an article of puritanical dress. Crownet, last purpose. Ant. and Cleo. Crusado, a Portuguese coin. Cry, a pack, or troop. Cor. Ham. Cub-drawn, i. e. bear, one whose dugs are drawn dry. Cuisses, armour for the thighs, cuisses, French. Cunning, knowing, skilful, in a good meaning. Curb, to bend and truckle, from courber. Ham. Cockney, a vulgar term of reproach for a person bred in the Curled, ostentatiously dressed. Oth. Ant. and Cleo. city. Codding, amorous. Codpiece, a piece of dress. Curious, scrupulous. Tam. Shrew, Ant, and Cleo. Coffin, ancient term for the raised crust of a pie. Tam. Curtail-dog, one which misses the game. Shrew. Tit. And. Collection, consequence or corollary. Cym. Ham. Collied, black, smutted with coal, discoloured. Curtle-are, a cutlass, broadsword. Customer, a common woman. Oth. &c. or one who visita such. Cut, horse. Twel. Night. Hen IV. 1st Part. Cut and long-tail, a phrase from dogs, poor or rich. Daff, or Doff, to put off. Collier, a term of reproach, from the impositions of coal. Damn, condemn. Jul. Cas. Coster-monger, a dealer in costers, or costards, a kind of Diet, to put under a regimen, to oblige to fast, or to loath Counter-caster, one who reckons by counters. Countercheck, an old term in the game of chess. County, ancient term for a nobleman. Much Ado. Rom. and Jul. Courser's-hair, alluding to the notion that the hair of a horse, dropt into corrupted water, will turn to an animal. Ant. and Cleo. Courses, the mainsail and foresail Temp. Court-cupboard, sideboard. Cowed, restrained, or made cowardly. Cower, to sink by bending the hams. Cowlstaff, a staff for carrying a large tub or basket with two handles. Coyed, condescended reluctantly. Coystril, a coward cock, a paltry fellow. Conker, a tailor, from cousu; or a cobbler, or sowter. Diffused, wild, irregular, extravagant. Digression, transgression. Love's Lab. Dildos, the burthen of a song. Directitude, discreditude, or discredit. Disable, undervalue. As you. Diverted, turned out of the course of nature. Division, phrase in music, the parts of it. Hen. IV. 1st Part. Daff, See Daff Dole, alms, or distribution. Don, to do on, put on. Dout, do out, extinguish. Dowl, a feather. Execute, sometimes for to use, or employ Executors, executioners. Hen. V. Exempt, independent, not under the control of Com. E. Exercise, exhortation, lecture. Rich. III. Exhale, breathe your last. Hen. V. Down gyved, hanging down like the loose cincture which Exhibition, allowance. Two. Gent, Uth. Lear. confines the fetters round the ancle. Draught, the jakes. Tim. Draw, sometimes used for with-draw. Drawn, swords drawn. Temp. A drawn for, one which is trailed over the ground, and deceives the hounds. Dressings, semblances or habiliments of virtue. Mea. for Mea. Driven bed, one for which the feathers are selected by driving with a fan. Drumble, to act as confused and stupid. Dudgeon, the haft or handle of a dagger. Dull, gentle soothing. Hen. IV. 2d Part Dullard, a person stupidly unconcerned. Dumbs, makes silent. Dump, a mournful elegy. Exigent, end, Exorcism, in Shakspeare, generally means the raising of spirits. Expect, expectation. Troll. and Cres. Expedience, expedition. Hen. IV. 1st Part. &c. Expostulate, inquire or discuss. Ham. Extacy, a degree of madness. Ham. Extremity, calamity. Per. Lear. די Eyas-musket, a troublesome puppy, infant Lilliputian. Dung, an obscene word, probably part of a proverb. Rom. Eyas and musket, are young hawks. and Jul. Elvish marked, marked by elves. Eyases, young nestlings. Ham. Eye, a shade. Temp. Eyliads, eyes; from illades. Fr. Face-royal, a face not to be meddled with. Hen. IV. 2d Faced, turned up with facings. Tam. Shrew. Facinorous, wicked. Factious, active. Jul. Cæs. Fain, fond. Hen. VI. 2d Part. Fall, often used as an active verb: At fall, at an ebb. Tim. Falsely, illegally, illegitimately, Mea. for Mea. Dishonestly, treacherously. Familiar, a demon. Hen. VI. 2d Part. Emballing, being distinguished by the ball, the emblem of Fancies and Goodnights, little poems so called royalty. Embare, expose, display to view. Embarquements, impediments, hindrances. Cor. Embossed, inclosed; when a deer is run hard, and foams at the mouth, he is said to be embossed. All's Well. Swollen, puffy. Empericutick, of an empirical kind, quackish. Empery, dominion, sovereign command. Emulous, often used in a bad sense for envious. Encave, hide. End, still an end, generally. Enfeaff, to invest with possession. Engaged, delivered as an hostage. Hen. IV. 1st Part. Engross, to fatten or pamper. Rich. III. Engrossments, accumulations. Hen. IV. 2d Part. Enkindle, or kindle, to stimulate. Mac. As you. Enmesh, inclose them all, from taking birds or fishes with Fee-farm, a kiss in fee-farm, a long and unbounded kiss, |